DOBROVSKY, JOSEPH 0753-1829), Hungarian philolo gist, was born of Bohemian parentage at Gjermet, near Raab, Hungary, and studied at Prague. In 1772 he joined the Jesuits at Briinn; but on the dissolution of the order in 1773 returned to Prague to study theology, and became tutor in the family of Count Nostitz. In 1792 he was commissioned by the Bohemian Academy of Sciences to visit Stockholm, Abo, Petersburg and Moscow in search of the manuscripts which had been scattered by the Thirty Years' War; and on his return he accompanied Count Nos titz to Switzerland and Italy. Dobrovsky was the real founder of modern Slavonic studies, and the originator of the revival of Czech as a literary language. His grammar and dictionary pro vided the basis for modern Czech philology, and modern Czech speech. (See CZECH LANGUAGE : CZECH LITERATURE.) The following is a list of his more important works, Fragmentum Pragense evangelii S. Marci, vulgo autographi (1778) ; Scriptores rerum Bohemicarum (2 vols., 1783) ; Geschichte der bohm. Sprache und &tern Literatur (1792); Die Bildsamkeit der slaw. Sprache 0799) ; Institutiones linguae slavicae dialecti veteris (1822) ; Entwurf zu einem allgemeinen Etymologikon der slaw. Sprachen (1813); and a critical edition of Jordanes, De rebus Geticis, for Pertz's Monu menta Germaniae historica. See Palacky, J. Dobrowskys Leben und gelehrtes Wirken (1833).